Permission Slips

Writing and speaking to companion, buoy, and clarify. Find links to latest posts on my Permission Slips Substack, articles, and blog archives below.

It All Gets To Belong by Jane Ratcliffe

The Body, Brain, and Books: Eleven Questions with writer, teacher, and somatics practitioner Johanna Franzel

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Crown Shyness
Johanna Franzel Johanna Franzel

Crown Shyness

We know that trees send messages underground to each other, that they pump nutrients to young sprouts, that they are in constant communication. But they also engage in a funny kind of dance called, of all things, crown shyness. Crown, or in Latin, as fate would have it, corona.

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